Preface: I purposely looked for this post to bring it back even though it was first posted less than three months ago. I knew that the basic theme was....malaise....but lethargy may be a better word. If you tell someone that we are under God's judgment....they are just not interested....simple as that....but you know what....Israel and Judah and Jerusalem.....were just not interested either....until they were.
Director Quentin Tarantino apparently has made ten films.....of which I have seen none.....although it would be near impossible not to have stumbled across a scene or two from Pulp Fiction. Anyway he says that he is going to retire from filmmaking soon....and added that he knows film....and that directors go downhill from here on in.
We are definitely in a mini dark age of some sort. J. Gresham Machen commented on this a hundred years ago when socialism was first making inroads in America. His point was that when individuality is taken away....then there goes the essence of the human mind that God had created.
I watched the Ohio Trump rally on Saturday evening....and there was nothing changed from every other rally over the past five years. Trump even ended his speech with the same....."and we are one glorious nation under God." There is little difference between a Trump rally and what were....in their heyday....Grateful Dead concerts....in that fans.....many of whom travel from all over America....and maybe are at their fiftieth rally.....come to hear the music of the night....where the Phantom sings to puts his prey into a trance.
It seems that every area of our culture is stuck in the mud. Thirty years ago....twenty years ago....there were some wonderful Christian books published....many intellectual and profound. Most of these author ministers are still around....and still in ministry....but the books are not coming out. Sports....education....politics of course....what area of life has not been affected by this malaise.....or rather....infected.....by the plagues of the mind?
As former President Trump uttered the words above....followed by...."And we will make America.....great....again"....I wondered what the people thought. Surely there could not have been the same....optimism....that was at all the pre-election and pre-insurrection rallies. The cheers were there.....but were they toned down a little....or was that my imagination?
How could anyone really think that we are...."one glorious nation under God?" Half of us are happy with killing pre-born babies if their arrival would be inconvenient. On our side we are displaying more and more racist tendencies all the time....pushed in this direction actually....for political expediency. You could see this clearly during the last election as Trump kept playing to 'suburban mothers'....who love him....because he promised them that he would keep low-income people away from their neighborhoods. This was an overtly racist proclamation....repeated all the time....and we said....nothing!
The Gay choice has literally taken over America....but what is new here....is that children are encouraged to experiment.....to see what they like best....and even to see what gender they would prefer to be. To the Christian who either has no interest in Christ's return....won't even consider the evidence....or even who simply do not want Christ to return at this time....even you must admit that this is an issue....the children....that God kind of drew a line in the sand on.
One might say that our minds today are vibrant in technological progress....what with AI and robots and rocketry and quantum physics and everything else....but these are mechanical results from the workings of the mind....and when you place this 'progress' alongside of no wisdom....and no ethics....and no common sense....and it's like the creation of monsters.
Last but certainly not least....the pulpits are as disinterested in God's judgments as everyone else. Had anyone yesterday....the Lord's Day....noticed a stirring of any sort from their pulpits....even a hint of awareness that the very near future might be one of exponentially increasing tumult and eruptions? Probably not....but next week is another Lord's Day.....and God might will it to begin to have mercy upon us.....at least this should be our continual and fervent prayer!
